Tombs Quotes - Page 3

• Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Firsts, Characteristics

  "The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill".

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• Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Dying, Virtue

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

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• I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Hope, Fear, Inscriptions

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• I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
  And out of the caverns of rain,
  Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,
  I arise and unbuild it again.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Children, Rain, Clouds

  'The Cloud' (1819)

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• One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire people from here and make deals from this room, he told me. Then he took me to the trading room. Nobody was talking to anybody else, the place was silent as a tomb, they were all sitting there watching their terminals - a great word, terminal. I tell you, it scares the crap out of me.

  Studs Terkel

  Talking, People, Office

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• When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

  Jan de Bont

  Second Chance, Firsts, Film

  "Jan De Bont Discusses Tomb Raider 2" By Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 12, 2003.

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• This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

  John Keats

  Lying, Heart, Names

  Epitaph for himself, in Richard Monckton Milnes 'Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats' (1848) vol. 2, p. 91.

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• The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.

  Paul Althaus

  Easter, Jerusalem, Facts

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• Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Composer, Handel

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2017). “Delphi Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at the birth of Dionusos. Hence the significancy of the phallus, or of its inoffensive substitute, the obelisk, rising as an emblem of resurrection by the tomb of buried Deity at Lerna or at Sais.

  Albert Pike

  Order, Rising, Earth

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.166, Lulu.com

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• For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men.

  Pericles

  Country, Heart, Men

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• You're walking by the tomb of Battiades,
  Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy
  Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

  Callimachus

  Laughter, Writing, Wine

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• My body is not a tomb for animals.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Body, Animal Rights

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• A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Talent, Mediocre, Gilded

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Art and Letters'

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• We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Family, Art, Struggle

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.31, Graphic Arts Books

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• It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

  Frederick Douglass

  Long, Rose, Forever

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

  Jules Verne

  Heaven, May, Buried

  Jules Verne (2011). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.57, ABDO

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• "Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice.

  Robert Emmet

  Writing, Character, Men

  Speech on his trial and conviction for high treason (September, 1803); reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 230), 1922.

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• We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

  John Donne

  Love, Peace, Ashes

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

  Zahi Hawass

  Heart

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• An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there, under the clouds, a Hawaiian string quartet, lounge, concessions and, a thousand feet below, New York-a garden of golden lights winking on and off, automobiles, trucks winding in and out, and not a sound. All as silent as a dead city-and it looks adagio down there.

  Dawn Powell

  New York, Garden, Cities

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried.

  J.R. Miller

  Character, Men, Buried

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• I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality; I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Cutting, Individuality, Adrift

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• Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.

  Mary Renault

  Men, Blood, Together

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• This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

  Benito Mussolini

  Lying, Animal, Intelligent

  Christopher Hibbert, Benito Mussolini (1962). “Benito Mussolini: a biography”

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